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F. M. RENNER.

VEHICLE.

No; 373,606. Patented Nov. 22, 1887.

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FREDRIOK M. RENNER, OF LONG ISLAND CITY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOSEPH OABUS, JR, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

VEHICLE.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,606, dated November 22, 1887.

Application filed April 27, 1887. Serial No. 236,319. (No model.)

To aZl whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, FREDRIOK M. RENNER, of Long Island City, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Vehicles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of vehicles, especially to the securing of the panels of said vehicles to their supports, and has for its object to so attach the panels that while securely and rigidly held in position the outer surface thereof will remain unbroken.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts,as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is an elevation of a section of panel having two supports attached, one of which supports is broken away. Fig. 2 is a trans verse section through line :0 x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section taken through line y y of Fig. 1. Fig. 4. is a perspective view of a wagon-body having my improvement applied.

Heretofore in attaching the panels of vehi eles to their pillars or supports the screws or bolts have been passed through the panel from the outside, their heads being countersunk, and thence into or through the supports, the apertures upon the face of the panels being plugged to present an even appearance. This mode of fastening,while secure, is open to a very serious objection-naniely, the continual dropping out of the aforesaid plug. To overcome this defect and provide an equally secure fastening is the object of the present invention.

To that end the inner face of the panel A, where it is adapted for engagement with the various pillars or supports B, is provided with a series of aligning, preferably circular, recesses, a, which recesses are made to extend through about half the thickness of the panels. Extending from each recess at one side an intersecting and preferably inverted-T-shaped slot, b, is cut, said slots being in alignment transversely of the panehwith the walls of the undercut portions (1 of the slots 1) in the same plane with the walls of the recesses a, as illustrated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, the whole forming key-hole slots. Into the recesses a the head h of a screw-bolt, H, is entered, the recesses being preferably of a size to just accommodate the said head, and the heads h are then entered the grooves d any desired distance, the body of the bolt projecting out through the slot b. Suitable countersunk apertures having been made in the pillars or supports 13 to receive the bolts H, the supports are drawn in close and firm contact with the pillars by screwing nuts h upon the ends of the bolts flush with the surface of the pillars, as shown in the drawlngs.

.The bolts H, where they engage the slots 1), are preferably made square, so as to prevent turning, and the pillars may, if desired, have their under surface also glued to the panels.

Although I have shown my improvement applied to an ordinary wagon-body, yet it is equally adapted for all kinds of vehicle-bodies.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a vehicle-body, the combination of the panels A, provided with the recesses a and slots 1), having undercut portions d, the supports B, having countersunk apertures, the screw-bolts H, and the nuts h, screwed on the bolts flush with the supports, substantially as herein shown and described.

- FREDRIOK M. RENNER.

\Vitncsses:

J. F. ACKERS, Jr., Jos. CABUS, Jr. 

